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HAPPINESS 

TO EVERYBODY 

An Earnest Plea to Every Voter 
Regardless of Party or Creed 




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BY 

GEORGE WILLIAM MOHR 

182 CENTRAL AVENUE 

JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

U S. A. 



COPYRIGH r 1914 BY G. W. MOHR 

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WORK 



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HAPPINESS 

TO EVERYBODY 

An Earnest Plea to Every Voter 
Regardless of Party or Creed 







BY 

GEORGE WILLIAM MOHR 

182 CENTRAL AVENUE 

JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

U. S. A. 

COPYRIGHT 1914 BY G. W. MOHR 



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PREFACE 



In the following I appeal to every voter — no matter what 
party or creed. 

I trust the most conservative will admit that conditions in 
this world are not as good as they could be, and that something 
should be done to improve this state of affairs. 

Further, that the most radical ought to take one slice of 
bread rather than none. 

When we get started and find that we are on the right 
track, we can slowly increase speed, but we must be careful not 
to tear down more than we can build. The man who tears down 
his house, no matter how poor it is, before he has a better one, 
is a fool. 

We must learn of nature. It does not create grain or fruit 
in an instant. We must, therefore, have patience and cultivate, 
sow and weed before we can expect to reap the harvest. 

Whenever I criticise the government in this booklet, I blame 
the voters as they elect the government, and when I make any 
assertion against the government, I do so against myself as I 
am a voter. 

Whenever "he" is mentioned in this booklet, "she," as a rule, 
is also meant. You will find some things repeated, but it is the 
constant hammering that breaks the stone, and the constant drop 
of water that hollows same. The tattoo alarm clock repeats the 
same over and over again. The owner may hear its first call, but 
it is only after it is repeated several times that he sits up and 
takes notice — so it is with me. I keep on hammering, pelting and 
ringing for the vcters and hope that some will wake up and see 
that it is shortsightedness, foolishness, unprofitable selfishness, 
and laziness that, to a great extent, brings about the miserable 
conditions now existing in this world. 



Work and Happiness to Everybody 



How long will it be before the majority of the voters are 
aware that it will be possible and profitable to let everybody work 
and thereby make their own living and laying aside a sufficient 
amount for their burial, instead of allowing a large percentage 
to be idle, live in want and misery, and when they die, to be 
buried in Potter's field? No matter how little they are allowed 
while they live and how little it costs to bury them, others have 
to toil for it and it is unfair to tax those because others are com- 
pelled or allowed to live in idleness. 

I suppose that a hundred years ago, a great many people 
thought it an unsurmountable undertaking to educate all the 
children, yet this is very nearly accomplished to-day in the civil- 
ized countries, but that education is not everything is proven by 
the fact that many well educated people live unhappily, do not 
succeed in life, but become public burdens, even commit suicide, 
because they are starving, while other people, who do not know 
the difference between an "A" and a "B" live happily, prosper 
in their way and are good citizens. 

That the civilized nations must feel that they are reimbursed 
for all that they expend on the children, seems to be proved by 
the fact that they extend and improve the education at great 
costs. 

When the children have graduated from the grammar school 
or are of a certain age, the government takes its hand off them, 
and is no longer concerned about what they are doing unless 
they come in conflict with the law. It seems to me, however, 
that the children at this age should be watched by the government 
most zealously, as they can easily be led astray. 

The child who has good morals and good parents or guard- 
ians does not require watching, but for the one who has weak 
morals or easy going parents or guardians, there is great danger, 
as they generally fall by the wayside. Some of these children 
have had little or no religious education. I think the public 
schools should teach morals that do not conflict with any civil- 
ized religion. For instance: — The Ten Commandments, The 



Golden Rule and other moral laws and rules which would lead 
them through life so that they would not fall so easily into temp- 
tation and violate the laws. They should also be educated so as 
not to be a prey to superstition, fortune tellers, and other 
swindlers. 

When some boys leave school, they are too young in their 
own or their guardian's opinion to go to work or they are too lazy. 
They have been taught to read, and one dime novel after another 
is devoured. They seek the company of older boys who are loaf- 
ing around and before they become aware of it, they, too, have 
broken the law. 

From bad it goes to worse, and at the best they will be the 
kind that are the last to be hired and the first to be laid off. 
While they work they only earn enough to live from hand to 
mouth. When idle they are a nuisance, one way or another, to 
the community. With some of the girls it is about the same. 
They, too, read the trashy literature, become love sick or stage 
struck, get into undesirable company and are an easy prey for 
evil people. Why allow those children to turn criminals ? Their 
mothers suffered and worked for them, and it cost their fathers, 
as well as the community, a great deal to rear them. 

Why should it be less grateful and less profitable to see that 
those children were kept on the right track, than it has been 
to give them an education ? 

The idle brain is the devil's workshop and the idle hand is 
his tool. Therefore, any one found idle should be set to do some- 
thing that is good for himself and the community. No matter 
how rich or poor the children may be, the boys should be taught 
a trade by which they can support a family. They should also 
be taught to cook and mend garments in case of an emergency. 

The girls should be taught to do housework, plain cooking, 
sewing and to take care of a baby. 

After a day's work is over, allow them to have some whole- 
some pleasure — have the assembly-room in the schools, or some 
other hall, open for them so that they can meet, dance and play. 
There should be plenty of good literature, and occasionally lec- 
tures of common interest. In short, the school should be the 
children's second home, where they are always welcome and 
where there is some one to look after them, correct their man- 
ners and give them good advice. If children are taught to work 
and behave themselves, they will, as a rule, appreciate it and 
become good citizens. At any rate there would be less crimes 



committed, and what that would cost to give them work and 
wholesome pleasure, would soon be saved in the criminal depart- 
ment of the government. 

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I have so often heard people say that anyone who wanted 
to work always could find work, but that is not true. No man 
with one grain of sense can say that there is always the same 
demand for labor. Now then, if everyone has a position when 
business is good, what will those thousands do who are laid off 
when business is dull? As a rule, it is the less skilled workmen 
who are taken on last and the first to be laid off. While they 
work, they only earn enough to live from hand to mouth; 
when they are laid off, they are destitute. They search for work 
as long as they are able to do so. When hunger and cold over- 
come them, they must not beg, not even lie down or commit 
suicide. If caught, they are set to work as criminals. (Is that 
not irony?) All they are allowed to do is to walk until they drop 
dead. What good is the education to them ? Suppose we all had 
the education of a professor, the strength of Hercules and were 
as industrious as an ant? As the system is now, some one has 
to be the unfortunate. No! it is not time for the individual 
to fight alone. The greatest nations, the richest trusts, the big- 
gest unions seek their allies. The down and out man without 
work has no friend, cannot get an ally, but a mob. Yet, when 
this man is working and spending every penny of his hard earned 
money, the country is prosperous. Therefore, why wait until he 
has lost confidence in himself, lost hope, patience, self-respect 
and committed a crime? Are we not farther advanced at pres- 
ent? Are we so short-sighted, narrow-minded, and unprofitably 
selfish that we bite off our noses to spite our faces? 

There has been so much criticism about the unemployed who 
would not shovel snow. Yet it looked to me that there were 
more willing hands, than there were jobs. That the man who had 
never done any manual labor, had not had the proper nourish- 
ment for some time and was not properly clad, would not accept 
such work, he should not be judged for that. The person who 
calls such a man lazy is not fair. He or she may have shoveled 
snow in the front of his or her own door and thought it an easy 
task, but he forgets he had been well fed and clad and could go 
in and change his footwear whenever he felt like it, while if the 
man above described, worked a day in the snow without proper 
nourishment and with cold, wet feet, he would contract a cold 
that would kill him. 

If a contractor who hauls the snow away used saddle horses 
and ponies that were not properly fed and shod, and hitched 



them to big trucks, heavily loaded and whipped them if they were 
balky, he would be punished severely by the government, and 
nearly everybody would think he deserved it, while but few have 
sympathy for the weak, starved and poorly clad man. 

Of course, there are many who will not work — they are im- 
posters and parasites. "For even when we were with you, this 
we commanded of you that if any would not work, neither should 
he eat." No sympathy should be shown to them. If a conscien- 
tious doctor could see that they were strong enough, had sufficient 
food and were suitably clad, they should be made to work. If 
they refuse, they should be whipped, or put in a tread mill, or 
both. 

The tendency in this age is to show more sympathy for 
animals than for human beings. If a man has no work for his 
horses, he, however, finds it profitable to feed them. If he does 
not, he will be severely punished by the government. 

When a man has no work for his employees, he simply dis- 
charges them. Of course, the single individual has to do so in 
order to protect himself. When he again has work, he expects 
to get help that has been fed and clad in order to be able to do 
a day's work. But where could the unemployed have had it in 
times as the present? 

With a Labor Trust on the left, a Money Trust to the right, 
a short-sighted Government in the back and Starvation in front 
of them, what shall the unemployed do today? What good is 
education to them when the stomach is empty and the body 
cold? What good are the employment bureaus, when there 
is not enough work to go around ? What good is it to tell them 
to go farming, when the manure which makes farming profit- 
able, you may say possible, goes into the cities' sewers or 
elsewhere, is lost? 

So many people say that when business is slack, there is 
an over-production. I fail to see how there can be an over-pro- 
duction, when there are hungry, poorly clad people, living in 
quarters not fit to shelter a dog, and there are always more 
people that live that way, when there is an alleged over-produc- 
tion, than when business is brisk. Neither can I see where those 
are right who say that there are too many people in this world, 
as it is a fact that the wealth has increased per individual ever 
since the history was written. The first settlers of this country 
had to work hard for what little comfort they had. George 
Washington was one of the richest men of his time, yet he did 



not live as comfortably as most well-to-do people do now. That 
certainly proves that the more people, the more wealth. 

Wealth is produced by work. Then why not let the willing 
hands work in order to produce still more wealth ? 

It seems to me, the trouble is, we have not heart enough 
and at the same time are foolish enough to allow the unemployed 
to be without work. 

The world should realize that the unemployed are on the 
pay roll anyway and that the time they waste is wasted for the 
community in which they reside. 

We are so far advanced at the present time, that many of 
the successful firms and corporations deem it profitable to give 
a share of their prosperity to their employees, but the nation will 
not give a share of its over-production to the unemployed by 
giving them work, but prefer to allow them to live in idleness. 

Is this not wrong? 

Suppose ten men were, for some reason or other, marooned 
on an island where they could easily make a living if each one 
did his share of the work. Now, if one of them refused to work, 
would not the other nine of them compel him to? 

If they were foolish enough to feed him and allow him to 
gain, by gambling and panhandling, w T hat they worked for, they 
would be the laughing stock of the world ; and suppose the nine 
told the one that he had no right to work or have anything to 
eat, only once in awhile, thereby keeping him in misery, would 
not the nine be severely punished when rescued from the island 
and the world became aware of their cruelty? They could con- 
sider themselves lucky if they were not lynched. Would it 
change the spirit of the case if it were one hundred men and 
ninety of them were the oppressors and ten the oppressed ? In- 
deed, it would not. Neither would it change the wrong if there 
were a thousand or a thousand million involved. As we are 
marooned on that little island in the Universe — called the Earth, 
we are not a particle better than the nine men on the little island, 
and we will be held responsible for our misdeeds and our follies 
when called away from here. Therefore, is it not now time that 
it be proclaimed throughout the world — That whosoever is in- 
dustrious and honest shall not suffer from want, but shall have 
plenty, followed by whosoever is lazy shall be made to work 
and who is dishonest shall be severely punished, and let the 
latter two rules be rigidly enforced. 

As I said before, it does not pay to farm without manure, 
but the farmers can not, as individuals, get enough of it back to 
the farm. The cities' population think it is to their advantage 



to let it go into the sewers, or otherwise waste it. As long as 
this practice is kept up, the price of food will continue to advance. 

The government should see to it that the waste be stopped as 
soon as possible, that fertilizers be manufactured, guano imported 
and sold to the farmers at cost, or even less than cost. 

If the manure had been brought back to the farms when the 
cities were founded and as the cities spread, the black soil re- 
moved to the vacant land, the villages surrounding the cities 
would have been gardens thickly populated with well-to-do 
farmers. As it is now there are big areas of waste land close 
to the cities and the food products have to be transported long 
distances. 

With the manure and other waste matter returning to the 
farm, the population would also return to their most natural 
livelihood, which is farming. More food stuff would be pro- 
duced, and with better, quicker and more direct transportation 
facilities, the farmer would make more profit and the city people 
would buy cheaper. 

With the intervention of the government it could be arranged 
that young people, especially the unmarried ones, go to the coun- 
try in the summer and help the farmers with their work, and 
return in the fall to the city and factories. Such a method would 
be very healthy for the young people and a benefit to the country. 

The government must have the power to control and must 
exercise such power. An engineer would not keep a governor 
on his engine if it did not work properly, nor let the engine stop 
or run wild as the load changes. Neither would he, if he had 
plenty of work to be done and plenty of steam on his boiler, jam 
down the safety valve so that the pressure would burst the fittings 
on the boiler and threaten to blow up the boiler. He would start 
his engine at once and fix his governor so it would regulate every 
stroke of the engine. 

We voters are the engineers and there is plenty of work to 
be done. Hungry and poorly clad persons are clamoring for 
work in order to earn a livelihood, but we jam their energy down 
so that the most oppressed and sensitive lose patience and create 
trouble. This is due to our not knowing how to organize the 
government so it can keep affairs running smoothly. 

When business is dull, men of science say there is an over- 
production, others claim there are too many people. Again I ask, 
"How can there be an overproduction when there are hungry, 
poorly clad people living in quarters not fit to shelter a dog?" 

How can there be too many people when the food is decay- 
ing on the farms and in the stores, when clothes are lying 

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awaiting buyers, and when fine houses are standing idle? 

It seems to me that it is just a plain case of poor management. 
It is to be compared with a person who has eaten too much and 
then becomes sick. A Doctor would call such a case indigestion 
and order a purgative. The hard times are nothing but business 
indigestion and need only a purgative — not one that kills the 
alleged superfluous labor or destroys the alleged over-production, 
but simply that the government allow the starving people to 
earn the over-production through honest work, by starting 
some undertaking or improvement, thereby putting money into 
circulation and having public workshops where the unem- 
ployed could earn their living. 

Of course, it should be gone about in a careful way — not 
create an unfair competition to private business that has been 
long established and paid fair wages to its employees, but give 
work at a minimum scale, so that those who were underpaying 
their help, would be obliged to raise the wages. That would help 
the conditions a great deal, as many employers who wish to pay 
their help living wages can not do so because their competitors 
underbid them due to their hiring help at starvation wages. 

Suppose a farmer with a large family of grown up children 
lived on a big farm, say five hundred acres, of which a hundred 
were cultivated, and suppose he had a bumper crop, so much 
so that he thought it would not pay him to gather it all, but let 
some of it rot on the farm, and after the harvest was over, he 
would sit down in his easy chair, tell some of his children that 
he had an overproduction, had no use for their help before spring, 
they could only get the leavings from the table and sleep in the 
barn, would not those children, no matter how good natured they 
were, harbor an ill feeling against their parent and kin? 

If they only had been allowed to live from hand to mouth 
when they worked, they would have accepted the offer. If the 
farmer had been foresighted and just, he would have kept all 
of them working, notwithstanding the over-production, he might 
have shortened the working hours, then he would have cultivated 
more of his farm, made improvements and erected buildings to 
house the increasing stock and products. We can all see that he 
should have done that, but so few of us can see that the govern- 
ment should in the alleged over-production times reach out and 
improve and build up the country. 

But the government allows the individuals to take care of 
themselves. Those who have only earned enough to live from 
hand to mouth become a public burden or nuisance; those who 
have managed to put a little aside will too often run short before 

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their fellow citizens hire them again; others go in business for 
themselves, others go out farming, but too often they fail, the 
former because the competition is too keen, the latter because 
the ground will not yield enough to make it profitable to till it. 

Selfishness is the mainspring that drives the world ahead, 
therefore, it should have its just reward. The industrious, inven- 
tive, and saving individual should not be trapped by the greedy 
speculator and gambler, nor be burdened by the lazy and happy- 
go-lucky ones. 

When a man has created (produced) or invented anything, 
the government should see to it that he enjoy the fruit of it in 
peace, and not be robbed by the capitalist. 

As an example, where the industrious and saving are bur- 
dened by the lazy or happy-go-lucky, I would mention this: In 
some States the widows are given a pension. Indeed a very noble 
act, as circumstances are now and I would vote for that myself, 
but why not see that every man earn enough to pay for a life 
insurance, instead of taxing the man who worked hard, saved 
and deprived himself of pleasure, sometimes necessities, for 
the sake of providing for his family if he should become 
disabled or die? 

When he has succeeded in putting a little away, he is taxed 
to pay for his neighbor's wife whose husband worked as little as 
possible or earned more than he did, but often spent it on luxuries 
and pleasures. Why punish (tax) the saving and industrious 
and reward the lazy or happy-go-lucky ? 

The government (or affairs) is now run like a clock without 
a pendulum. It is either a feast or a famine. At no time are 
all the individuals doing their share or receiving their just 
reward. The government should be the pendulum that would 
tick justice to everybody; thereby encourage the mainspring to 
work hard. 

Justice is generally pictured blindfolded. I would suggest 
that the cloth be torn from her eyes and a magnifying glass 
given to her instead. 

In the last one hundred years, wonders have been done 
toward educating the people. If in the coming hundred years, 
as much will be done toward giving everyone a chance, and com- 
pel the idlers to provide for themselves by doing something useful 
for the community, the world will become a far better place to 
live in. Education without an opportunity to make a living, 
brings only discontent and unrest for the energetic. To be 
allowed to idle away the time and live on others' proceeds, 

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destroys the character and leads to crime that creates a bad 
example and is contagious. In the past much has been done 
toward preventing contagious diseases from spreading, but very 
little has been done to destroy the main roots to crimes, which 
are idleness, bad literature and shows. 

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The Christians pray, "Lead us not into temptation, but de- 
liver us from evil." I think besides praying, we should do some 
honest work to remove the temptations and evils in this world. 
We would then have a better conscience to face our Judge on the 
last day. Further we pray : "Give us this day our daily bread." 
It is repeated millions of times each day, although men of science 
claim there is an over-production. Do we expect (want) our 
Creator to come and lead and feed us like babies? Have we 
forgotten that we are set on this earth to reign and conquer it? 

Nature has granted our prayer long ago. As a rule it 
gives its reward to every honest effort to make a living. Of 
course we have our free will, if we insist upon living against 
the law of nature, letting a large percentage be non-productive, 
live packed together in skyscrapers and rob the soil of its 
resources, we must take the consequences. We should see that 
everybody could and should earn their daily bread, then thank 
and praise our Creator for His generosity, that He has sent us 
in this magnificent world that yields, what men of science call 
an over-production. 

It is true that Nature once in a while seems to be cruel by 
sending us an earthquake, flood, draught, etc., but that helps to 
remind us of our weakness and smallness, that we must stand 
by one another and help others as we want them to help us if 
we are in distress. On such occasions our hearts generally open 
up. We can send large sums of money, big quantities of provi- 
sions to those stricken people who live in distant countries, and 
whom we do not know, while our neighbors suffer from want. 
We should always have a heart for our fellow citizens, not so 
much by giving them something for nothing. I think charity, 
although conducted with good intentions, has spoiled very many 
people. It weakens their energy and lowers their self-respect. 
Nature gives very little to us without an effort from ourselves, 
therefore, we should follow Nature's example and teach the 

weaker by honest work to be self-supporting. 

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I would compare this world with a theatre, where everybody 
can see what is going on on the stage and where everybody can 
safely come and go when there is no panic, but as soon as someone 
in the gallery shouts "Fire," there is a panic. Everybody is for 

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himself, he leaves his hat and coat, jumps from the balcony and 
galleries on top of the other people, tramples on the prostrated 
and weak, tears his own clothes and flesh in the mad rush for 
safety. When he reaches the street he only realizes what damage 
he has done. If he had walked out in an orderly manner he 
would not have lost anything, nor been hurt at all or done any 
harm to his fellow citizens. He may even discover that there 
was no fire at all, but that it was somebody who shouted "fire" 
in mischief or spite. 

So it is with business. When everything runs smoothly there 
is work for almost all, but when some one up in finance sees 
something on the political or business horizon that does not suit 
them, they shout "fire !" by withdrawing money from the business 
or stop the money from circulating. Others follow suit and the 
panic or hard times are on. When the panic is over many people 
in business have been ruined, financially and physically. The 
manual labor has suffered from hunger and cold; many have 
died from lack of proper care. 

So much has been done to save lives from fire, but too little 
has been done to save people from idleness and its associates — 
starvation, exposure, sickness and death. 

Someone will say that if the government should give work 
to the unemployed, it would only be to make room for more graft 
and swindle. Well, just now there are men among us who know 
how to deal with grafters and political swindlers, and if the 
public show their appreciation of such men by keeping them in 
office, promote and pay them excellent salaries, and if these men 
find it profitable to work for the public, they will continue to do 
so. Others will then follow in their steps and gradually all the 
public servants will be excellent men, who know how to manage 
the office they are in. 

The successful corporation and firm do not pick their men 
at random, but carefully select those who have had experience 
in similar positions and when they prove competent, are promoted 
and their salaries raised. Such men do not fear anything, — but 
to do wrong. They know that as long as they do what is right 
and are industrious, they will be taken care of, no matter what 
happens. If the voters would be guided by such an example, 
there would be still better men in their service; we would have 
more respect for the government (ourselves) and the whole world 
would have more respect for this country. 

Everybody should know that if they are honest and indus- 
trious, they will get their reward. That reward could certainly 

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not be less than steady work at a living wage. Everybody 
should also know that if they are dishonest, lazy or neglectful, 
they will be severely punished. 

With a fair and sure reward ahead, a severe and just pun- 
ishment behind, a commercial education to the left, a good 
moral education to the right and a competent government 
above them, people would soon become better. 

About thirty-three hundred years ago the commandment, 
"Thou shalt not kill," was written. About nineteen hundred 
years ago, Christ said to Peter : "Put up again thy sword into its 
place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the 
sword." How true this prophesy. Nation after nation that has 
risen to power by conquering their neighbors by brutal force, 
have themselves been conquered and torn asunder. Yet the world 
will not take heed to the warning. 

The nations that call themselves Christians and civilized, 
jump at their neighbors' throats like brutal bulldogs at a slight 
provocation. After thousands of human lives have been lost or 
crippled and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed, 
other so-called Christian nations step in and mediate the trouble 
and bring about peace. 

After a war it is justice that the one who has suffered and 
lost most, must pay indemnity to the one who has been most vic- 
torious, no matter what the cause of the conflict has been. The 
neutral nation sustains the victorious nation's demand of the 
conquered one. Justice has been satisfied in the eyes of the so- 
called Christian and civilized world. 

Is it not time now that the neutral nations step in before 
blood has been shed and property lost and see that real Justice 
be enacted? 

The Christian and civilized nations believe that there is only 
one God, yet when two Christian nations wage war on one 
another, each nation prays to God to help to conquer the other. 
Indeed, a parody on Christianity. There are no words in any 
language that can express such Idiotism and Hypo-criticism. 
Imagine two brothers, each begging his father to help him kill 
his beloved son? 

The Christian and civilized nations are so far advanced that 
they do not allow their citizens to fight a duel. If they are caught 
doing so, they are punished as disorderly persons. As a whole, 
the nations cannot see that honor is restored by shedding blood 
among their respective individuals, but demand that any contro- 
versy must be settled by decision of the courts. How then, can 

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the nations believe that their honors can be restored by shedding 
innocent persons' blood, and by imposing taxes on persons who 
have no interest in the war? 

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It is said that sin came into this world by a lie. Then why 
not try to destroy the source of sin — by going for the biggest 
and most flagrant lies, and thereby bettering this world? 

When election campaigns are in progress the one party ac- 
cuses the other parties of some wrong doing, or that they are 
responsible for some evil conditions of affairs. The leaders pro- 
claim such statements from the platforms and allow same to be 
printed in the newspapers alongside the contradictions of their 
opponents. 

Evidently one of the parties is telling lies and whoever it is 
should be punished most severely as it is bewildering for the 
voters. 

The candidates, wilfully telling falsehoods, are not fit for 
even the lowest office in the country, and should, therefore, not 
be tolerated. 

In some States a candidate must now file a list showing how 
much he has spent in the campaign. Would it not now be time 
that the candidates, public speakers and editors be held responsi- 
ble for every statement they make during the campaigns? 

If the voters could believe every word they heard or read, 
they could vote more intelligently, and the campaigns would not 
be such disgraces as they are now. 

GEORGE W. MOHR. 



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